North Carolina is fighting subpoenas sent by Trump’s Justice Department seeking millions of voting records from the state — including the ballots cast — for an ICE noncitizen voting investigation. Even after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Eastern North Carolina extended the deadline for the state to turn over the records from this month — which would have disrupted election preparation plans — to January 2019, North Carolina’s Board Of Elections says the subpoenas are still too broad and the state attorney general is requesting that they be withdrawn.
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